Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, and Kristen Sharp
Abstract
A visual culture of environmental deterioration, pollution and disaster has fast become part of our everyday media lives. This is accompanied by a wider move towards recognition, consciousness, and critique of the politics, flows of goods, and capital and consumer cultures, increasingly held responsible for environmental degradation. This book explores how artists can provide alternative ways in which to understand, visualise and critically intervene in the entanglements between media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific.
Chapter by chapter Screen Ecologies shows how artists are merging vis ... More
A visual culture of environmental deterioration, pollution and disaster has fast become part of our everyday media lives. This is accompanied by a wider move towards recognition, consciousness, and critique of the politics, flows of goods, and capital and consumer cultures, increasingly held responsible for environmental degradation. This book explores how artists can provide alternative ways in which to understand, visualise and critically intervene in the entanglements between media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific.
Chapter by chapter Screen Ecologies shows how artists are merging visual and new media methods to carve out alternative ways to understand, visualise, comment on and intervene in the complex entanglements of media and environment of the Asia-Pacific. In doing so it takes a new approach to advancing an agenda already shared by scholarly, activist and art critiques of climate change.
Keywords:
Climate change,
new media,
artists,
art,
environment,
visualisation,
digital methods,
e-waste,
art critique
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780262034562 |
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262034562.001.0001 |